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they will use it. not only does it give us the economic and environmental and social returns that i spoke of earlier in the hour, but also, just makes life early -- easier for for people. guest: i think is going to take all different kinds of loads in order for us to meet the needs of the country. there may be places where a monorail makes sense. however, i think in most cases we will be using and expanding and using the existing road system. for a very high-speed service, for example, we will need a new rice -- a new right of way. we may be able to use the median strip in the highway system for some of the links, as a gentleman suggested. i think it next 10 to 15 years we will see major improvements in our intercity transportation. i think we will do more to connect our cities systems together. for example, in those areas where we would have interstate bus service, we want to make sure that is considered. we want to make sure that when someone gets to the end of their journey there is good local publi
they will use it. not only does it give us the economic and environmental and social returns that i spoke of earlier in the hour, but also, just makes life early -- easier for for people. guest: i think is going to take all different kinds of loads in order for us to meet the needs of the country. there may be places where a monorail makes sense. however, i think in most cases we will be using and expanding and using the existing road system. for a very high-speed service, for example, we will...
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that is what keeps us ahead. it must keep us ahead in the future. when i look at tax laws and regulatory policy, i do not look at this as if i will go after that guy because he makes more money than i do, buy it look at it in terms of having a system that will give people the capacity to dream beyond their dreams, give them new ideas. cell phones, blackberry, iphone, ipad, no one thought of these things 30 years ago. hundreds of thousands of people are working there. what is the ipad of 20 years from now? i do not know. government does not now -- does not know. we need americans taking risks on their ideas. i would like my idf to be a product that people are going to use. that is why i get excited about it, i am afraid it times that we forget that side of government. and that will be debilitating to our ability to create jobs. my children and grandchildren, hopefully they will have better. host: david, republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have been practicing as a cpa for 20 years. we have an old saying that someone with an unlim
that is what keeps us ahead. it must keep us ahead in the future. when i look at tax laws and regulatory policy, i do not look at this as if i will go after that guy because he makes more money than i do, buy it look at it in terms of having a system that will give people the capacity to dream beyond their dreams, give them new ideas. cell phones, blackberry, iphone, ipad, no one thought of these things 30 years ago. hundreds of thousands of people are working there. what is the ipad of 20...
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so please be patient with us. we're trying to put our servers in the cloud that my technical people tell me is important, and we hope we will have that up. but back to your point about a program for the rich, we're conserve tives. we're going to promote a conservative philosophy as an alternative to the aarp liberal philosophy, and that means we believe in markets and bring market pressures to bear. host: you will have the business plan and the same tax incentives? guest: oh, absolutely not. not the same taxes. let me be very clear about this. we are a for profit business. this is the marvel of the market. aarp is for profit. they mack a very big profit. the difference is they don't pay taxes. we will pay taxes. and so after we earn whatever we manage to earn, our first obligation will be to pay the federal government and state government taxes. we will pay those taxes. now, we will fight like bulldogs to change that tax law, because we think that it's an abomination, no pun intended. i've been using that word for
so please be patient with us. we're trying to put our servers in the cloud that my technical people tell me is important, and we hope we will have that up. but back to your point about a program for the rich, we're conserve tives. we're going to promote a conservative philosophy as an alternative to the aarp liberal philosophy, and that means we believe in markets and bring market pressures to bear. host: you will have the business plan and the same tax incentives? guest: oh, absolutely not....
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thank you for being with us this morning. let us go to battle creek, michigan. kevin, democratic line. you're on the air. what do you think about tuesday's primary results? caller: i am astonished. i think the tea party needs an opposite. what happened to the coffee party? i believe the republican party has its friends, and the tea party is it and i believe that they channel their aggressions and all of their lives and everything they don't want to say because they have to go against the general election, they let the tea party say it. if you want to know how person stands and who they vote for, rich people or more people -- or poor people, what do you watch? c-span or cnn or fox news? anybody who says -- you may hear aggressive -- aggression in my voice. ask them if they watch fox news. a person commented that he is voting straight republican and he used to be a democrat. come on, do, you cannot be a republican today and used to be a democrat because the democrats used to be strong for poor people now they are trying to appease you guys on the right who they ar
thank you for being with us this morning. let us go to battle creek, michigan. kevin, democratic line. you're on the air. what do you think about tuesday's primary results? caller: i am astonished. i think the tea party needs an opposite. what happened to the coffee party? i believe the republican party has its friends, and the tea party is it and i believe that they channel their aggressions and all of their lives and everything they don't want to say because they have to go against the...
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we tend to use weapons before we use our brains. host: "the wall street journal" highlights the president's speech. they write that -- he gave short shrift to iraq as a democratic ally in the middle east and did not say when or even how our ultimate success in iraq had informed his own decision to surge troops in afghanistan. virginia, the plan, democrats line. go ahead. caller: i am from new york. shall i speak up? host: go ahead. caller: i think he should turn the page. it should have been turned a long time ago. but i do not think the media will let him because they just keep the war is going. let me say this because i tried so hard to get on to you -- george washington's farewell address. he answered many of the questions facing us. telling us we should be aware -- host: sorry, we will have to let you go. your signal is breaking up. here's more from the president last night. >> we must use all elements of all power, including our diplomacy, economic strength, and the power of america as an example to secure our interests and sta
we tend to use weapons before we use our brains. host: "the wall street journal" highlights the president's speech. they write that -- he gave short shrift to iraq as a democratic ally in the middle east and did not say when or even how our ultimate success in iraq had informed his own decision to surge troops in afghanistan. virginia, the plan, democrats line. go ahead. caller: i am from new york. shall i speak up? host: go ahead. caller: i think he should turn the page. it should...
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they will punish us. you do not want to get into a situation where you say, germany, china, we think you are unfair and we are going to put tariffs on you. it would be a free-for-all. host: speaking of germany, there are passing austerity measures, not out of their economic recession, there are in recovery. why were they able to do it? guest: there is some misunderstanding going on there. they did pass austerity measures. this year, however, their deficit will be quite large, and there are still benefiting from the fruits of past programs, like the u.s. the reason they are doing so well, frankly, is exports. they know this game. they know that this is not something that everyone can do. not everyone can increase export without increasing imports. i have spoken to german officials. they have their fingers crossed that the u.s. does ok this coming year. they do have one interesting phenomenon. there gdp fell even more than our did, but their jobs did not. there is a tradition in germany of job sharing. rath
they will punish us. you do not want to get into a situation where you say, germany, china, we think you are unfair and we are going to put tariffs on you. it would be a free-for-all. host: speaking of germany, there are passing austerity measures, not out of their economic recession, there are in recovery. why were they able to do it? guest: there is some misunderstanding going on there. they did pass austerity measures. this year, however, their deficit will be quite large, and there are...